A letter , which I received today from a
Doctor
in India after his reading my first page on Vitamin B12 and looking
for answers to his own health challenges , provoked me to expand on my
writing, Vitamin B12 page 1, started 2 months
ago on the ignorant and eternal "Vitamin B12 supply-and-deficiencies" debate.
So here is this second page on the internal B12 metabolic challenges --
The
Real B12 "Deficiency" Issues!

Sadly, much is still not widely understood
or openly taught on this subject. But worse,
there is unbelievable bias and pathetic falsehoods abounding among too
many so-called "Professionals", and even I certainly still don't know as
much as I could or would like. But what I
have known about B12 for more than four decades exceeds that which is proverbed
among my peers -- but how does the voice of
one nondescript fellow get heard in a crowd of flashy peers or medical
egotists. So, to now defend an accused Vegan
family and its medical fraud and state removed child, I am forced to
disturb more convention and upset many peers and so-called friends and
their too often repeatedly published, mindlessly accepted and parroted
flawed beliefs, so I must continue writing this critical correction on
Vitamin B12.

You should consider
the following conclusions based upon my extended education, sense, life
experience and many reviews of good (but individually never completely
perfect) research literature. That research literature should also be available
to you or your doctor (on the web or in a good medical university's library).

Also understand that
in many so-called, even best-intended scientific writings, one prejudiced
or flawed idea, perception or premise or even just a single erred word
can and often does invalidate an entire thesis -- and all other thesis's
or volumes based upon the flawed first!

-- I will add as much here in time
as I can. tlr/LSI 9/19/03

The Real B12 "Deficiency"
Issues!

B12 Uptake: You have already
seen my limited first page defining VitaminB12
and its source. -- So you should already understand
that:

--since
cyano-bacterially produced cobalamin is ubiquitous in the environment,
it appears that true B12 intake deficiencies, beyond that of severe starvation
or malnutrition, are now understood to be reasonably rare! --and
that the now more apparent problem is the consuming human's failed pancreas,
fundus
and intrinsic factor production, internal binding, absorption,
transport,
use,
and/or wastedysfunctions!

B12 absorption, impairment
and loses:Clear physiology,
simple logic and research literature indicates three important conditions
--
besides insufficient uptake of B12 (which is truly rare in most all natural
conditions or diets) -- that contribute to low serum or interstitial,
or malfunctional B12.

2. Bacterial
and parasitic competition for dietary
B12 (AKA: "Blind Loop" losses): a.
Many animal dependent pathogenic microbes and parasites (again associated
with non-sterile dairy, fish, insect and all animal consumption) as well
as abnormal overgrowths of so-called "friendly" flora compete for and can
steal most all ingested B12 from the host human's nutrient / fecal flow.

3.Bile
wasting of liver stores of B12: a. Bile
production is the only
true wasting
transport and exit vehicle of body (liver) stores of
B12, i.e. real losses. Urine only
transports (or "spills" as a "safety valve") at threshold exceeded B12
serum levels. No other
significant loss or export of B12 exists!--
except in placental transfer to fetus and in the milk of lactating females.
So excessive bile production
-- hence B12 wasting (via bile-bearing
excrement)
-- is only realized and is (again only truly) associated
with dairy, egg, insect, industrially hardened fats, all animal fats and
all animal protein (lipoprotein) consumption. So to
appropriately conserve uptake B12 liver, serum and interstitial stores
--
and to minimize bile-waste losses -- a none-bile digestion requiring,
solely vegetation based, nourishment regimen is indicated.

All
three main B12 defect producing conditions
listed (with sublistings) above do generally exist, at
varying "subclinical" levels in all persons eating some
form of the "Western-like" dairy, fish, fowl and cattle
meat (animal tissues centered)carnivorous
diets. But since the
first tiered, ie. herbivorous animals, like cattle (which are consumed
directly by humans), or second tiered, carnivorous animals, like fish,
fowl, swine (also consumed by humans), are very efficient
collectors
and concentrators
of (vegetation decomposition sourced -- cyano-bactria produced)
B12 within their body tissues (as would also, or does occur in totally
herbivorous humans) -- the consequent "super-doping"
or high intake of B12 by meat-eating humans generally
compensates
(often overcompensates) for the same animal-ingestion-caused
impaired absorption, etc. (listed above) and
so
does mask
those subclinical damages naturally inherent with dairy, egg and all animal
(and insect) tissues consumption. -- That
masking is generally successful!--
until the damage rates overtake and exceed the super-doping B12 compensation
rates that the animal tissues also provide!

(The subtle but
ultimate occurrence, over time, of animal tissue triggered B12 absorption
breakdown may well be simply deemed, written off, or accepted as part
of "normal" aging! -- or as a undetected factor in a host of other psychological,
neurological, physiological, genetic and geriatric diseases, and dying
or death, and "diagnosed" through many different nomen, up to and including
"natural causes"!)

However, since B-12 producing Cyanocobalamin
bacteria love light and air, and they flourish on the surfaces of all plant
matter, the more surface of a plant food you can consume, the
more B-12 you will obtain. In scientific terms: the higher the surface
ratio to consumed end-product volume, the higher the Vitamin B-12.

That means that the greens, that generally
grow with large surface areas in relation to weight of consumed product,
will carry in the most B-12.

Items that can provide excellent boost to
your B-12 stores are juiced greens, with the highest surface to volume
ratio. So the richest supplies of B-12 generally is in the grasses:
wheat grass juice or Barley grass juice or other juicable grasses, then
parsley, or similar thin leafed greens (or finely flowered greens like
broccoli) - which concentrate even more available B-12 by juicing!

-- Remember that the favored food
of my old cows is the grasses and any leafy silage -- 800 pounds of it
to make 1 pound of finished cow! -- That's why my dumb colleagues think
nature's supply is those animals! -- They don't understand or haven't figured
how the cow truly came by so much vitamin B-12. -- So it is obvious that
sometimes those "highly educated" "scientific" wives-tail finding (and
actually self believing) human scientist fellows are not as smart
as they think themselves to be! -- Sorry but my old cows are smarter! --
My old cows eat grass -- not another cow, some other critter, some
liver, slaugtherhouse wastes or sewage to get their Vitamin B-12!!!

Also Cyanocobalamin bacteria (like my old
cows) do well on the soil-oxygen supplied surfaces of tubers (potatoes,
carrots, beets, etc.) - so the skins and sub skins are a good supply of
B-12 and should not be discarded where possible. (My old cows love those
tuber's skins.)

Also Cyanocobalamin bacteria do well on
fomenting vegetation or on saprophytes, like yeast! Both are excellent
in nutrients and rich with B-12! (Cows love them too!)

Also like all micro-biota, Cyanocobalamin
bacteria are impaired or killed by pesticides, so you should try to choose
organic or pesticide free produced foods wherever possible. But if organic
is not available, at least consume plenty of greens. (You can spout and
grow your own grasses or greens at home even on a window sill and the wind
blown air-carried Cyanocobalamin bacteria will land and multiply on them.)

Just so you are clear
on bacteria (and not fearful of all):Two classes
of bacteria exist:

Animal bacterial
pathogens (and symbiotes) -- the ones that can cause disease in you
and in the animals -- are darkness requiring (light and cosmic energy
sensitive) and do not tolerate much "free" oxygen, if any at all (anaerobic).
They do not survive well or for very long (only minutes) outside the protective
and nutrient provident animal's (or human's) tissues and fluids (blood,
eggs, lymphus, milk).

Plant pathogens
and flora-symbiotic bacteria, all the "Cyano" bacteria, which
includes the Vitamin B-12 producing Cyanocobalamin Bacteria; on
the other hand, prefer light and require abundant free oxygen (aerobic)
-- so they cannot survive in you or in any animal and cannot cause you
or any animal disease. But they "happily" live everywhere else in the environment,
even blowing in the wind as they are whisped from (and to) the leaves and
surfaces of every tree and foliage on the Planet. It is their metabolic
end-product (waste) which is consumed, collected and conservatively used
by my old cows and by your body as Vitamin B-12.

Thanks to the
plants and their special symbiotic kind-to-plant kind-to-animal kind-to-humanity
bacteria! We should
learn some divine good from then both! -- Let Live! Then We Can Live! tlr/LSI
01/06/04

Footnotes with precise
references will be added as soon as is possible.But in the mean time this
is what I have available in rough:1. VitaminB12Pathophysiology194-1962. VitaminB12Pathophysiology215-2163. VitaminB12Pathophysiology470-472Remember some error is already introduced
in these 3 citations above by several contributors - based on their compartmentalized
education, misconceptions or traditional belief in their base error that
useful cobalamin, B12, is provided only by animals! So ferreting truth
from the empirical data and redrawing correct conclusions has always been
required of me in formulating best understanding -- and is also required
of you for yours!

I will try to improve upon and expand this page later as my resources/time
allow. In the meantime, you may see a reference to intestinal (microvilli)
repair at LDSVeg.org/Raw.htm#microvilli,
and other intestine and whole body healing and nutritional information
on LifeSave.org, VeganCowboy.org,
WaterAndLife.org
and our other subject specific sites (listed on Lifesave.org and VeganCowboy.org)T L R. 9/19/03

Appreciation to my wife
and family: Constructing this page has taken more than three full days away
from family and real income producing work (which also goes to cover this
labors total direct costs including the necessary ongoing internet debts).
This required the confirming in all my old references, personal texts,
notes and data from forty years education and experience back; then the
time and concentration to ponder, recheck my supporting data, organize,
write, edit, rewrite re-edit -- and I am probably still not finished with
refining it for you! My hope is you will be benefited, have correct
knowledge, prove it yourself as is possible, and that you will appreciate
this labor and sacrifice (especially that which affects and leaves my family
short) given for you, the reader! Any
donation to help maintain this effort in return for your benefited health
would be appropriate and appreciated
--
tlr
created 9/19/03 | edited with pancreas
and fundus failures added 10/1/03 | edited seperating answer
to Doctors letter Nov 5 03 |